# Ganapathy Venugopal

> Ganapathy Venugopal is a seed investor at Axilor Ventures backing Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Axilor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axilor-ventures)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganapathy-venugopal-3729ba4a

Ganapathy Venugopal is a seed investor at Axilor Ventures in Bengaluru focused on Software and E-Commerce. Ganapathy Venugopal - Co-Founder & CEO @ Axilor Ventures

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |
| SaaS | 2 | 11% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 11% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 47% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 12 | 63% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AdvantageClub.ai | Advantage Club provides an AI-driven platform intended for driving employee engagement. It delivers programs that connect and benefit both the brands and an organization's clients/employees. The company intends to provide an end-to-end solution to facilitate meaningful client and employee engagement through exclusive privileges andrewards provided by its brand partners. | $4M | Seed | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| Newtrace | Newtrace develops novel electrolyzers for affordable green hydrogen production at scale. | $5.6M | Seed | May 31, 2023 |  |
| Doppelio | The Doppelio Perhaps one of the most undervalued functions is testing. Most folks think that decoding software code is a fun profession. So did we, until we were given the task of creating a smart building platform with 5000+ sensors and 250+ business rules in each building. Building management systems and infrastructure are placed in eachstructure. The product was ready for that use. There was one step left to do, as predicted: testing the solution in all scenarios and for each building. | $1.2M | Seed | May 11, 2023 |  |
| Peer Robotics | Peer Robotics is a collaborative mobile robotics startup building material handling solutions that can learn from humans in real-time. | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Newtrace | Newtrace develops novel electrolyzers for affordable green hydrogen production at scale. | $987.4K | Pre-Seed | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Dvara E-Dairy | Dvara E-Dairy Solutions aims to empower every small and medium dairy farmer in India with comprehensive financial and cattle management solutions to help them participate and prosper in the growing dairy economy by providing them with suitable digital solutions by leveraging new-age technologies. | $2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Dvara SmartGold | Dvara SmartGold helps to provide a mobile solution for middle- and lower-income households to purchase gold in the convenient, secure, and cost-effective manner possible. It provides an investment service to financially integrate households. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website. | $2M | Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| BizzTM | BizzTM is a company that provides a variety of e-commerce categories of products through an aggregated delivery model. | $1.2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| eShipz | EShipz is a freight services company that offers a software platform designed for shipping automation. The company specializes in the fields of E-commerce, software, and logistics. EShipz was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Karnataka, India. | $700K | Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| SuperBeings | SuperBeings is a platform that provides Leaders with the tools, insights, and learning needed to continuously supercharge their teams. Through its platform, the company helps managers get continuous feedback from their team members on themselves and the teams’ work environment while closing the loop with personalized learning and action plans. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Axilor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axilor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Dvara Holdings — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Dvara Holdings — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Incisive Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/incisive-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Speciale Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speciale-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Axilor Ventures

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Axilor Ventures is an early stage seed fund and startup accelerator founded by some of the iconic entrepreneurs and business leaders, which include Kris Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, Professor Tarun Khanna, Srinath Batni and Ganapathy Venugopal. In the last three years, Axilor has supported more than 80 startups, made 30+ investments and has anactive Alumni network of 150+ founders.. Axilor focuses on early stage investments across the following sectors - Consumer Internet, Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech and Industrial IoT.

5 contacts available at Axilor Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kris Gopalakrishnan | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-gopalakrishnan |
| Ganapathy Venugopal | Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| Julian Philips | Mentor | — |
| Nandan Venkatachalam | Investment Associate | — |
| Nidhi Mathur | Venture Partner, Axilor Lab | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Ganapathy Venugopal invest in?

Ganapathy Venugopal invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ganapathy Venugopal?

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### When did Ganapathy Venugopal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ganapathy Venugopal closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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